The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for…

An Answer to a young unsettled Friend, who before inclining strongly to Anabaptistry, at last fell in with the Quakers, and desired my thoughts of them and their ways, which seemed to him agreeable to the Scriptures.

An Answer to a young unsetled Friend, who before inclining strongly to Anabaptistry, at last fell in with the Quakers, and desired my thoughts of them and their waies, which seemed to him agreeable to the Scriptures.

I Have perused your Request, and am glad that you are not so confirmed in your misery, but that you will yet ask advice of your Friend; I pray God you be so ingenious and happy as to take it: It is a very sad thing to me and should be so much more to you, to think that after so much pains as you have taken in duty, and so much zeal as you have professed for God, you should yet be so unacquainted with the will and Word of God, and Christ should have so little interest in your heart, as that such horrid unchristian doctrines and practices should be so easily entertained by you, and so far approved of: I marvel why you took it for so great a work of grace to convert you from ⟨image 7⟩profaneness, and now will take it for a greater work to convert you to it again, or to much worse? Was it not the same Ordinances that you despised before Conversion, which you now much more desp•se? Was it not the same Ministers that thou you scorned whom ye now reproach with far greater bitterness (if you do as those whom you plead for do?) Is it not the same Christians whom you then derided, and now revile at, and condemn as Children of the devil: O miserable man! Is all your hearing and praying come to this? Dare you meet the Messengers of Christ in the face, and tell them they are Liars and deceivers? Dare you cast out the holy worship of Christ as false worship, and seek to draw people into the contempt of it? Dare you damn those Churches and millions of Saints that Christ hath bought with his precious blood? Dare you seek to draw men to hate their Teachers whom Christ hath set over them, and to hate his people as if they were the Children of the Devil, and to hate his worship and holy ways? Alas that ever a man in his wits should look upon such abominations as amiable, and much more that any man should be so mad as to do this under the Name and profession of a Christian! That you can imagine that the furious opposition to the whole Army of Christ, his Officers, Church and Ordinances, can yet be a work that Christ accepteth: That you should no better know Christs work from Satan's, nor know that it is the Dragon whose warfare these men do manage?